New York Memories
Jul 15 2010
•1h 29m
•Documentary
In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might find and also to check in on the colorful protagonists of his 1989 documentary, Überleben in New York. Both a personal journey and a historical survey, New York Memories captures a transformed city by charting the shifting course of gay life, from Warhol Factory figures to the AIDS ravaged, within it.
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Anna Steegmann
Claudia Steinberg
Michael Bloomberg
Judith Malina
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